Darren Reed wrote: > > Bennett Todd wrote: > > [tagged better than XML] > > Software is buggy and that's a fact of life we seem to be unfortunately > stuck with. A bug here or there should not be perceived as anything > more than "the odd bug." > [...] > Does XML follow the KISS principle ? Depends on how you look at it. > [...] If we say "use XML", we run the risk of people parsing their logs through big XML libraries. Tens of thousands of lines of code? Perhaps worse: the SAME big XML library, so when one bug strikes, everyone becomes vulnerable? If we say "use tagged"... Well.. I can build a parser for that that puts all elements in an associative array in about 10 lines of awk. I haven't yet had to code on in C, but it doesn't strike me as very hard to do. In my opinion, simply going with tagged output is the way to go. -- Mikael Olsson, Clavister AB Storgatan 12, Box 393, SE-891 28 ÖRNSKÖLDSVIK, Sweden Phone: +46 (0)660 29 92 00 Mobile: +46 (0)70 26 222 05 Fax: +46 (0)660 122 50 WWW: http://www.clavister.com _______________________________________________ LogAnalysis mailing list LogAnalysisat_private http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/loganalysis
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